tempfile.hon commit tempfile: release deactivated strbufs instead of resetting (102cf7a)
   1#ifndef TEMPFILE_H
   2#define TEMPFILE_H
   3
   4/*
   5 * Handle temporary files.
   6 *
   7 * The tempfile API allows temporary files to be created, deleted, and
   8 * atomically renamed. Temporary files that are still active when the
   9 * program ends are cleaned up automatically. Lockfiles (see
  10 * "lockfile.h") are built on top of this API.
  11 *
  12 *
  13 * Calling sequence
  14 * ----------------
  15 *
  16 * The caller:
  17 *
  18 * * Allocates a `struct tempfile` either as a static variable or on
  19 *   the heap, initialized to zeros. Once you use the structure to
  20 *   call `create_tempfile()`, it belongs to the tempfile subsystem
  21 *   and its storage must remain valid throughout the life of the
  22 *   program (i.e. you cannot use an on-stack variable to hold this
  23 *   structure).
  24 *
  25 * * Attempts to create a temporary file by calling
  26 *   `create_tempfile()`.
  27 *
  28 * * Writes new content to the file by either:
  29 *
  30 *   * writing to the file descriptor returned by `create_tempfile()`
  31 *     (also available via `tempfile->fd`).
  32 *
  33 *   * calling `fdopen_tempfile()` to get a `FILE` pointer for the
  34 *     open file and writing to the file using stdio.
  35 *
  36 *   Note that the file descriptor returned by create_tempfile()
  37 *   is marked O_CLOEXEC, so the new contents must be written by
  38 *   the current process, not any spawned one.
  39 *
  40 * When finished writing, the caller can:
  41 *
  42 * * Close the file descriptor and remove the temporary file by
  43 *   calling `delete_tempfile()`.
  44 *
  45 * * Close the temporary file and rename it atomically to a specified
  46 *   filename by calling `rename_tempfile()`. This relinquishes
  47 *   control of the file.
  48 *
  49 * * Close the file descriptor without removing or renaming the
  50 *   temporary file by calling `close_tempfile_gently()`, and later call
  51 *   `delete_tempfile()` or `rename_tempfile()`.
  52 *
  53 * Even after the temporary file is renamed or deleted, the `tempfile`
  54 * object must not be freed or altered by the caller. However, it may
  55 * be reused; just pass it to another call of `create_tempfile()`.
  56 *
  57 * If the program exits before `rename_tempfile()` or
  58 * `delete_tempfile()` is called, an `atexit(3)` handler will close
  59 * and remove the temporary file.
  60 *
  61 * If you need to close the file descriptor yourself, do so by calling
  62 * `close_tempfile_gently()`. You should never call `close(2)` or `fclose(3)`
  63 * yourself, otherwise the `struct tempfile` structure would still
  64 * think that the file descriptor needs to be closed, and a later
  65 * cleanup would result in duplicate calls to `close(2)`. Worse yet,
  66 * if you close and then later open another file descriptor for a
  67 * completely different purpose, then the unrelated file descriptor
  68 * might get closed.
  69 *
  70 *
  71 * Error handling
  72 * --------------
  73 *
  74 * `create_tempfile()` returns a file descriptor on success or -1 on
  75 * failure. On errors, `errno` describes the reason for failure.
  76 *
  77 * `delete_tempfile()`, `rename_tempfile()`, and `close_tempfile_gently()`
  78 * return 0 on success. On failure they set `errno` appropriately and return
  79 * -1. `delete` and `rename` (but not `close`) do their best to delete the
  80 * temporary file before returning.
  81 */
  82
  83struct tempfile {
  84        struct tempfile *volatile next;
  85        volatile sig_atomic_t active;
  86        volatile int fd;
  87        FILE *volatile fp;
  88        volatile pid_t owner;
  89        char on_list;
  90        struct strbuf filename;
  91};
  92
  93/*
  94 * Attempt to create a temporary file at the specified `path`. Return
  95 * a file descriptor for writing to it, or -1 on error. It is an error
  96 * if a file already exists at that path.
  97 */
  98extern int create_tempfile(struct tempfile *tempfile, const char *path);
  99
 100/*
 101 * Register an existing file as a tempfile, meaning that it will be
 102 * deleted when the program exits. The tempfile is considered closed,
 103 * but it can be worked with like any other closed tempfile (for
 104 * example, it can be opened using reopen_tempfile()).
 105 */
 106extern void register_tempfile(struct tempfile *tempfile, const char *path);
 107
 108
 109/*
 110 * mks_tempfile functions
 111 *
 112 * The following functions attempt to create and open temporary files
 113 * with names derived automatically from a template, in the manner of
 114 * mkstemps(), and arrange for them to be deleted if the program ends
 115 * before they are deleted explicitly. There is a whole family of such
 116 * functions, named according to the following pattern:
 117 *
 118 *     x?mks_tempfile_t?s?m?()
 119 *
 120 * The optional letters have the following meanings:
 121 *
 122 *   x - die if the temporary file cannot be created.
 123 *
 124 *   t - create the temporary file under $TMPDIR (as opposed to
 125 *       relative to the current directory). When these variants are
 126 *       used, template should be the pattern for the filename alone,
 127 *       without a path.
 128 *
 129 *   s - template includes a suffix that is suffixlen characters long.
 130 *
 131 *   m - the temporary file should be created with the specified mode
 132 *       (otherwise, the mode is set to 0600).
 133 *
 134 * None of these functions modify template. If the caller wants to
 135 * know the (absolute) path of the file that was created, it can be
 136 * read from tempfile->filename.
 137 *
 138 * On success, the functions return a file descriptor that is open for
 139 * writing the temporary file. On errors, they return -1 and set errno
 140 * appropriately (except for the "x" variants, which die() on errors).
 141 */
 142
 143/* See "mks_tempfile functions" above. */
 144extern int mks_tempfile_sm(struct tempfile *tempfile,
 145                           const char *template, int suffixlen, int mode);
 146
 147/* See "mks_tempfile functions" above. */
 148static inline int mks_tempfile_s(struct tempfile *tempfile,
 149                                 const char *template, int suffixlen)
 150{
 151        return mks_tempfile_sm(tempfile, template, suffixlen, 0600);
 152}
 153
 154/* See "mks_tempfile functions" above. */
 155static inline int mks_tempfile_m(struct tempfile *tempfile,
 156                                 const char *template, int mode)
 157{
 158        return mks_tempfile_sm(tempfile, template, 0, mode);
 159}
 160
 161/* See "mks_tempfile functions" above. */
 162static inline int mks_tempfile(struct tempfile *tempfile,
 163                               const char *template)
 164{
 165        return mks_tempfile_sm(tempfile, template, 0, 0600);
 166}
 167
 168/* See "mks_tempfile functions" above. */
 169extern int mks_tempfile_tsm(struct tempfile *tempfile,
 170                            const char *template, int suffixlen, int mode);
 171
 172/* See "mks_tempfile functions" above. */
 173static inline int mks_tempfile_ts(struct tempfile *tempfile,
 174                                  const char *template, int suffixlen)
 175{
 176        return mks_tempfile_tsm(tempfile, template, suffixlen, 0600);
 177}
 178
 179/* See "mks_tempfile functions" above. */
 180static inline int mks_tempfile_tm(struct tempfile *tempfile,
 181                                  const char *template, int mode)
 182{
 183        return mks_tempfile_tsm(tempfile, template, 0, mode);
 184}
 185
 186/* See "mks_tempfile functions" above. */
 187static inline int mks_tempfile_t(struct tempfile *tempfile,
 188                                 const char *template)
 189{
 190        return mks_tempfile_tsm(tempfile, template, 0, 0600);
 191}
 192
 193/* See "mks_tempfile functions" above. */
 194extern int xmks_tempfile_m(struct tempfile *tempfile,
 195                           const char *template, int mode);
 196
 197/* See "mks_tempfile functions" above. */
 198static inline int xmks_tempfile(struct tempfile *tempfile,
 199                                const char *template)
 200{
 201        return xmks_tempfile_m(tempfile, template, 0600);
 202}
 203
 204/*
 205 * Associate a stdio stream with the temporary file (which must still
 206 * be open). Return `NULL` (*without* deleting the file) on error. The
 207 * stream is closed automatically when `close_tempfile_gently()` is called or
 208 * when the file is deleted or renamed.
 209 */
 210extern FILE *fdopen_tempfile(struct tempfile *tempfile, const char *mode);
 211
 212static inline int is_tempfile_active(struct tempfile *tempfile)
 213{
 214        return tempfile && tempfile->active;
 215}
 216
 217/*
 218 * Return the path of the lockfile. The return value is a pointer to a
 219 * field within the lock_file object and should not be freed.
 220 */
 221extern const char *get_tempfile_path(struct tempfile *tempfile);
 222
 223extern int get_tempfile_fd(struct tempfile *tempfile);
 224extern FILE *get_tempfile_fp(struct tempfile *tempfile);
 225
 226/*
 227 * If the temporary file is still open, close it (and the file pointer
 228 * too, if it has been opened using `fdopen_tempfile()`) without
 229 * deleting the file. Return 0 upon success. On failure to `close(2)`,
 230 * return a negative value. Usually `delete_tempfile()` or `rename_tempfile()`
 231 * should eventually be called regardless of whether `close_tempfile_gently()`
 232 * succeeds.
 233 */
 234extern int close_tempfile_gently(struct tempfile *tempfile);
 235
 236/*
 237 * Re-open a temporary file that has been closed using
 238 * `close_tempfile_gently()` but not yet deleted or renamed. This can be used
 239 * to implement a sequence of operations like the following:
 240 *
 241 * * Create temporary file.
 242 *
 243 * * Write new contents to file, then `close_tempfile_gently()` to cause the
 244 *   contents to be written to disk.
 245 *
 246 * * Pass the name of the temporary file to another program to allow
 247 *   it (and nobody else) to inspect or even modify the file's
 248 *   contents.
 249 *
 250 * * `reopen_tempfile()` to reopen the temporary file. Make further
 251 *   updates to the contents.
 252 *
 253 * * `rename_tempfile()` to move the file to its permanent location.
 254 */
 255extern int reopen_tempfile(struct tempfile *tempfile);
 256
 257/*
 258 * Close the file descriptor and/or file pointer and remove the
 259 * temporary file associated with `tempfile`. It is a NOOP to call
 260 * `delete_tempfile()` for a `tempfile` object that has already been
 261 * deleted or renamed.
 262 */
 263extern void delete_tempfile(struct tempfile *tempfile);
 264
 265/*
 266 * Close the file descriptor and/or file pointer if they are still
 267 * open, and atomically rename the temporary file to `path`. `path`
 268 * must be on the same filesystem as the lock file. Return 0 on
 269 * success. On failure, delete the temporary file and return -1, with
 270 * `errno` set to the value from the failing call to `close(2)` or
 271 * `rename(2)`. It is a bug to call `rename_tempfile()` for a
 272 * `tempfile` object that is not currently active.
 273 */
 274extern int rename_tempfile(struct tempfile *tempfile, const char *path);
 275
 276#endif /* TEMPFILE_H */